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Centenary of Architect
Paul M. Rudolph
(1918-1997)
In addition to completed projects, Paul Marvin Rudolph's archive also contains materials related to major projects that were never built, including his design ideas for "megastructures" such as the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) in New York City. The first idea to build LOMEX emerged in the 1930s, as a way to connect the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges to New Jersey through the Holland Tunnel. By the 1940s, Robert Moses, a city planner who transformed the infrastructure of the New York metropolitan area, proposed an elevated highway for the same purpose. The LOMEX proposal was withdrawn in 1968 due to negative public reaction and Governor Nelson Rockefeller's push for mass rather than vehicular transit. The Fort Foundation commissioned Rudolph to study LOMEX, resulting in him publishing his own designs for the project. |